Investigation GS workflow in grasshopper

[FlorisWL]

Try to work on a general setup in grasshopper for the tool. Keyword is general, so should be flexible, expendable, work for any type of form/force diagram.

Maybe start with an investigation into the variations in form and force diagrams.

investigation variations in form and force diagrams

• [ ] Define a number of different possible designs, and document differences and variations.
• [ ] Create models in Rhino or in GH, Think about how to create and how to input into tool.

create a general setup for the tool to support these variations

• [ ] Pin down workflow -> start from force? from form? a combination? both?

[FlorisWL]

I am working on "first effort at developing something from scratch.gh"

Here the functionality is tried to be incorporated for a simple triangular truss, with only 3 members, 3 joints, and 1 load on the one joint that isn't also a support. Several issues have come to light which I need to work on to make it more general:

• [x] incorporate support conditions. Make sure the model knows about the support conditions, and supports changing support conditions.
• [x] Create a proper data flow for the joints. Allow for a n number of members coming together in a node. And think about combining nodes. Data flow?

It sure is going to be quite a challenge to properly fix this. Probably will need to have more logic in C# and less in grasshopper.